Great Feuds in Science
Author | : Hal Hellman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2004 |
ISBN-10 | : OCLC:939614368 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Download or read book Great Feuds in Science written by Hal Hellman and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Controversy is central to scientific development. This book recounts ten major disputes that riled the world of intellectual research since the seventeenth century. It discusses Galileo's censure by the Catholic Church for his theories of astronomy, the furore over Darwin's proposals concerning evolution, and other historic quarrels about the nature of the universe.